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PC vista to newer iMac 24" Alum Airport

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triplejadogg

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Mar 30, 2009
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Hi all,

Ok I'm extremely new to the mac. I just purchased the iMac 24" this weekend 3/27/09. I was told by the sales rep that I can run the wireless internet to PC from the Airport app that the iMac comes with.[ network sharing]???

Well, I got it set up and it shows up on my PC, the PC sees it I just can't connect to the internet. Does anybody know how or what I need to do to get this going right???



The set up is
Cable Modem/ hard line router. To my Xbox[2]/ iMac/ PC desktop/ and I wan't to run the Sharing from the iMac to provide the internet to my PC laptop.

Thanks in advance for you help.
 
Does the AirPort icon in your menu bar look like this?
 

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No, I think it just has the satelite signals going up. I don't think I've seen the arrow.

what does that mean
 
In Leopard:

 -> System Preferences -> Sharing -> Internet Sharing

Choose to share your connection from ethernet to computers using AirPort. Go into AirPort Options and give your network a name and password. Once that's done, tick the checkbox beside Internet Sharing in the list.
 
Bacong said:
Why can't you just connect both computers wirelessly?
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I don't have a wireless router. I use a hardline router to run everything. Including my laptop before I got the iMac, I want to be able to give my laptop the wife to use around the house.
 
Be that as it may, I prefer to operate using internet sharing as well. Setup is much simpler than with a router. The only downsides are that the host computer must always be running when you want to use the clients (not a problem for me) and that you can only use the insecure WEP encryption protocol.
 
I agree... but I figure since the mac has the ability to allow my PC to go wireless, I might as well use it at least for now.
 
K, Blurev I tried doing what you said. Now my PC says "the wireless authentication settings on this cpu do not match the requirements of this network".
 
Maybe someone else can help you out there. I don't know that much about wireless networking on Windows, and it sounds like that's where the problem lies.
 
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